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REMEDY FOR E-XGESSIVB PERSPIRATION. No. 351,621. Patented.0ot.'26, 1886.

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JULIUS VALENTIN BRANDAU, OF LIGHTENAU, HESSE-NASSAU, PRUSSIA, GERMANY.

REMEDY FOR EXCESSIVE PERSPIRATION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,621, dated October 26, 1886;

Application filed April 14, 1886. Serial No. 198,854. (No specimens.) Patented in England March 19, 1886, No. 3,913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I J ULIUs VALENTIN BRAN- DAU, of the city of Lichtenau, in the Province of Hesse-Nassau, and Kingdom of'Prussia and German Empire, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Remedies for Preventing Abnormal Perspiration of the Human Body, (for which I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 3,913, dated March 19, 1886,) ofw'hich the following is a specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing, and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to an improved compound for preventing abnormal perspiration of the human body, said compound being hereinafter referred to.

The said compositionconsists, substantially, of a chemical combination of ether and chloric gas,combined with a mixture of muriatic acid, alcohol, and glycerine, and is produced as follows:

All the parts of the ingredients hereinafter mentioned are parts by weight, and the words more or less are supposed to stand after the'words by weight. I

In the drawing forming part of this application, A isa flask containing one hundred parts of butyrate ofsodaand one hundred parts of acetate of soda, (G,H,O,Na,) mixed with one hundred and sixty parts of highly-rectified alcohol (alcohol of 90) and two hundred and eighty parts of sulphuric acid. Thisniixture .is distilled, and the vapors of butyric ether (ethyl butyrate, G H' OQ and acetic ether (ethyl acetate, G. ,H,O,,O,l:l,) thus obtained are conducted through the tube a into the glass vessel B, where they meet with a current of chlorine gas, which enters through pipe 0 from another flask, 0, containing four hundred and fifty parts-of pyrolusite, (peroxide of manganese,) four hundred and fifty parts'of common salt, and one thousand parts of sulphuric acid, for the purpose of generating the said chlorine gas in the usual manner. The distillation of the said others should be conducted in such a manner as to cause them to enter the said vessel B in a slowly-moving current, the said vessel being kept constantly filled with the said chlorine gas from the flask 0. Care should also be taken that during the commencement of the operation the mixture of chlorine gas and the butyric and acetic ethers are subjected to the direct action of the sunlight, since only under this condition can the gases be caused 5 to enter into a chemical combination,and thus to be transformed into a liquid state. The process being once started,the direct action of the sunlight is not required, as the condensation of the said gases within the vessel B will continue quietly, and the liquid product will drop from the said vessel through the connecting-tube I) into the receptacle D This receptacle is about three-fourths filled with a mix,- ture ofthree thousand seven hundred and sixty parts of concentrated muriatic acid, one hundred and twenty parts of highly-rectified alcohol, (of 90,) and one hundred and twenty parts of glycerine.

The process is completed and the operation stopped as soon as the condensation within the vessel 13 commences to decrease and chlorine gas only to leave the lower tube, b.

The contents collected within the said receptacle C are then thoroughly mixed together by 7 5 shaking the latter, and the resulting mixture is colored light red by adding some litmus. The mixture is then filled into green or brown bottles and tightly closed, and constitutes the novel preparation "Antihidrorrhoiduni.

The preparation is applied externally to the human body in the form of local baths, and may beused in its original concentrated form, or, particularly if the bath be applied to the whole body, diluted by adding a suitable quantity of water. It acts favorably upon the sympathetic fibers of the nerves, regulating the tension of the blood-vessels, and it thus regulates theperspiration in a manner well linown.

-Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The compound for preventing abnormal perspiration of the human body, consisting of chlorinated ether, composed of chlorine gas combined with butyric and acetic ethers, in combination with muriatic acid, alcohol, and glycerine, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The process of producing a compound for 1c:

preventing abnormal perspiration of the huatic acid, alcohol, and glycerine, substantially to man body, consisting in combining butyric as and for the purpcse specified.

and acetic others and chlorine gas to form a I In testimony WhereofI have signed my name liquid chemical product within a receptacle to this specification in the presence of two subwhich contains a surplus of the said chlorine scribing witnesses.

gas, and at the commencement of the operation JULIUS VALENTI N BRANDAU. issubjectcd, as described, to the direct action of XVitnesses:

the sunlight, and mixing the said liquid thus ADOLF SPIETZ,

Obtained with a mixture of concentrated muri- ROBERT R. SCHMIDT. 

